Premier League crisis club of the week 2023/24: Chelsea
Winning just one of your first four Premier League games is pretty bad. Losing to West Ham United is pretty, pretty bad. Losing to Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge is pretty, pretty, pretty bad.
All of this occurring after you spent over £1bn on a new squad of players is truly catastrophic.

Why are they in crisis?
See that £1bn+ that Chelsea spent on new players? Yeah well they spent it hoarding young players instead of building a squad capable of winning games of football.

While the likes of Cole Palmer, Romeo Lavia and Deivid Washington may be sound long-term investments Chelsea, they're only sound long-term investments when key positions of weakness have already been addressed in the market.

The fact is, Todd Boehly and co focused on these long-term investments instead of signing a proven goalscorer who can win Chelsea games, and a high-quality goalkeeper who can prevent Chelsea from losing games.

They're literally the two most important positions on a football pitch, and Boehly essentially neglected them.

What can they do to rectify it?
With the transfer window now closed, Chelsea fans simply need to hope for three things to happen:

1. Mauricio Pochettino works out a tactical system that makes the Blues much more effective in the final third.
2. The trillion young players that the club have signed all come good.
3. Todd Boehly trusts Pochettino and doesn't sack him...and then sack the manager after that...and the manager after that too all the in the space of six months (again).

If these three things occur, Chelsea could become a genuinely good football team for the first time since Boehly took ownership of the club.

Source

Leyqute:


Babanla Kaka

His face mask is the giveaway. Felix is not a FIFA legend .

U just give us an expo
Someone also pointed the bolded out for me, if not I would have gone for Felix

MorataFC:
U just give us an expo
Someone also pointed the bolded out for me, if not I would have gone for Felix

Leyqute:


Me sef I no know. Na why I bring am here

Looks like someone from a toothpaste commercial.

ha 😁 the sex queen

🚨Romeo Lavia just got injured at a training session today with Chelsea. Could be a muscle tear at the ankle.
(sachatavolieri)

just kill me😭

Ballzproblem2:
🚨Romeo Lavia just got injured at a training session today with Chelsea. Could be a muscle tear at the ankle.
(sachatavolieri)

just kill me😭

We lost €12m Alan Varela to Porto and sent Andrey Santos on loan because we were looking for premier league experience from a player that relagated with Southampton.

So many awful decisions....

Ballzproblem2:
🚨Romeo Lavia just got injured at a training session today with Chelsea. Could be a muscle tear at the ankle.
(sachatavolieri)

just kill me😭

Shey someone here cleared us that Lavia injury problems at Southampton are just coincidental and not long standing

Gucciboy:


We lost €12m Alan Varela to Porto and sent Andrey Santos on loan because we were looking for premier league experience from a player that relagated with Southampton.

So many awful decisions....

Lesley ugochukwu is there

Ibime:


Shey someone here cleared us that Lavia injury problems at Southampton are just coincidental and not long standing

pochettino training style 😢

🚨Extent of the injury for Lavia is not yet known..
[Via@C345Sam]

This one never even play any game, e don dey carry injury upandan

I no get strength for this abeg

Nahhh we’re cursed at this point

One bad decision after another.

When I tell una say that man Boli spirit no gel with this club, y'all think its a joke.

He better go for proper cleansing.

Where is SkimpleD?

Ibime:


Shey someone here cleared us that Lavia injury problems at Southampton are just coincidental and not long standing

Is this guy a traditional b2b defensive midfielder (Enforcer/ destroyer) or a DLP/ Regista who happens to be a good ball carrier? I think he is the latter..

Roland17:


Is this guy a traditional b2b defensive midfielder (Enforcer/ destroyer) or a DLP/ Regista who happens to be a good ball carrier? I think he is the latter..

He's a good holding player who is silky on the ball. Not b2b

The day that made Raumdeuter hate Hazard
https://twitter.com/Nino12x/status/1699895057292439782?t=N72iteleUsw4P2kQ0lTVgA&s=09

Amoto94:
The day that made Ramdeuter hate Hazard
https://twitter.com/Nino12x/status/1699895057292439782?t=N72iteleUsw4P2kQ0lTVgA&s=09

The day he lost and Bayern won the trophy

Amoto94:

The day that made Raumdeuter hate Hazard
https://twitter.com/Nino12x/status/1699895057292439782?t=N72iteleUsw4P2kQ0lTVgA&s=09

See hazard goal Beauty ,

boathand dey do throwaway face defending

Cesc Fabregas on Eden Hazard: "I think he is very underrated with his final ball. He has got a lot of good vision. He is intelligent. He doesn’t just dribble and then pass it back. There is a purpose to everything Eden does."

Whodeyhause your attention is needed pls.



https://www.nairaland.com/7833622/barcelona-begin-sale-camp-nou

That must be grade-A trolling

Chelsea injury record justifies boehly buying talents up and down.

🚨 Carney Chukwuemeka is set for another month on the sidelines after damaging his knee.

In more positive news, Trevoh Chalobah and Benoit Badiashile are nearing returns and Armando Broja is building up his fitness.



(@MrDomSmith)no disrespect only badia they useful among the three

MorataFC:
Whodeyhause your attention is needed pls.



https://www.nairaland.com/7833622/barcelona-begin-sale-camp-nou

Alright

Chukwuemeka suffered a setback

Lavia out for an extended period

Can't catch a break, even in the international break

MorataFC:
Whodeyhause your attention is needed pls.



https://www.nairaland.com/7833622/barcelona-begin-sale-camp-nou

People that were using the dembele's psg money to order plenty laptops for their lamasia boys to start yahoo. Didn't you see the news last week? That club is feeling the effects of no fuel subsidy more than us in Nigeria.
Sapalona.

BlueMann:
Chukwuemeka suffered a setback

Lavia out for an extended period

Can't catch a break, even in the international break

No be lie!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Amoto94:
Cesc Fabregas on Eden Hazard: "I think he is very underrated with his final ball. He has got a lot of good vision. He is intelligent. He doesn’t just dribble and then pass it back. There is a purpose to everything Eden does."

If they have to be supporting his actions with these plenty shalayes then na dud player

John Terry: “I promise you they [current squad] need time. It’s a young squad. They need to be like sponges and tapping into Thiago and the older players. If they have a similar attitude to Ash and myself they will be fine.”

[via @simonphillips]
imagine a legend who has played many games saying this ,but one random nairaland tactico will thinks he knows more than professionals.

The squad needs time you can't rush it, pochettino is the right coach.

Infinite Athlete will become #Chelsea's front-of-shirt sponsor in a deal worth £43million for the ongoing season, while Riyadh Air could replace them in 2024/2025.

(@Lu_Class_)
#CFC #justcfc

🚨 Infinite Athlete will be the FOS Sponsor this season for a deal worth £43m. IA will then become the sleeve sponsor from the 2024/25 season with Riyadh Air then becoming potential FOS. Kaiyun offered £38m for this season’s FOS and came close.

(@Lu_Class_)
👀

#CFC #Justcfc

Gucciboy:
🚨 Infinite Athlete will be the FOS Sponsor this season for a deal worth £43m. IA will then become the sleeve sponsor from the 2024/25 season with Riyadh Air then becoming potential FOS. Kaiyun offered £38m for this season’s FOS and came close.

(@Lu_Class_)
👀

#CFC #Justcfc

just to show you how useless and stupid epl is. why did they ban (infinite plus) and (paramount+) Arabs, from being our sponsors?. they just bring two useless excuses to block the deals. is it okay to start the league sponsorless? there plan was to allow Chelsea to just go on, so that people will laugh us, and our profile will go down from being sponsorless. this shows their bias and hatred for Chelsea and their plans to bring us down. starting to feel stupid boehly was a plan by them to finally destroy us. I've not seen an American business man as stupid as boehly, of all the billionaires na stuuuupid bole fa give us. stupid corrupt league. up Chelsea ktbffh.